Mars has a visitor. It likes to roam, observe, measure, and collect. It is not the first to visit Mars. It will not be the last. But it might be… the most curious! Here’s our grand cover reveal for my next book, RED ROVER, by author Richard Ho, out on October 29, 2019! All

Last week I had the honor of joining the co-hosts of #SequoyahChat on Twitter for a behind-the-scenes interview on the making of How to Be an Elephant. Here’s a transcript of my questions and answers below. Enjoy! Q1 for @KRoyStudio – Have you ever been to Oklahoma?

The following interview with Barb Rosenstock was originally published here at Picture Book Builders. Enjoy! A few weeks back, I was fortunate to interview Katherine Roy, author and illustrator of the Sibert Honor Book Neighborhood Sharks and her title from this past spring, How To Be

The little-known true story of the first deep dive into the ocean . . . Eighty-eight years ago today on June 6, 1930, engineer Otis Barton and explorer William Beebe dove into the ocean inside a hollow metal ball called the Bathysphere. They knew dozens of things might go wrong. A tin

Most people outside of picture book publishing don’t that authors and illustrators almost never directly communicate throughout the entire book-making process—any and all discussions usually get filtered through a book’s editor. So as you can imagine Barb Rosenstock and I were VERY ex

Reposted from the my interview with Lillian Schrock at the Corvallis Gazette-Times. Photos by Anibal Ortiz. Enjoy! One of the first things Katherine Roy did after moving to Corvallis last year was go to the library. “My husband said, ‘Let’s see if they have your shark book. If they ha

If you’ve read How to Be an Elephant or you’ve seen one of my book talks, then you already know that I love talking about poop. Specifically, I love talking about elephant poop, because it’s so important for both baby elephants and their ecosystem as a whole. African

First of all, I want to express my enormous thanks to every one of you who came to one of my launch events in the past few weeks. Whether you’re a friend, a teacher, a librarian, a bookseller, a parent, or one of the many hundreds of students I spoke with while on tour, asante (